Turbota

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1. Filipina (US citizen) .. Going back to Philippines for BSN

   Turbota replied to Turbota's topic in Registration

   I'm thinking .... good advice

2. Filipina (US citizen) .. Going back to Philippines for BSN

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   Well, the more I read all these negatives here on the forum, the more I realize that this whole Philippines nursing school may be just a big waste of time and money. And I had no idea that there was a big glut of nurses here in the US at this time. A...

3. Filipina (US citizen) .. Going back to Philippines for BSN

   Turbota replied to Turbota's topic in Registration

   Your reading way too much into all this. We have been together for 8 years already (married for 6), and never once has she been a Gold-Digger .... And no, I didn't meet her in a bar in Angeles City either. And I didn't meet her on the internet either...

4. Filipina (US citizen) .. Going back to Philippines for BSN

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   The real problem we have about going to school here in the US is .... You have to take all these prerequisite classes beforehand, and that don't guarantee that you will even be accepted into the nursing course once you complete them. Well ... you fol...

5. Filipina (US citizen) .. Going back to Philippines for BSN

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   steppybay .... Well, maybe this whole nurse deal is not worth the trouble. Maybe I am just living in the past ... But, as you very well know, there was once a time that many Filipina nurses came to the US for jobs in hospitals. In fact, I would bet t...

6. Filipina (US citizen) .. Going back to Philippines for BSN

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   TheAverageMan ... My wife is originally from Bacolod. In fact when we got married in Bacolod, we had a house built in Ayala North Point. Sold it before I brought my wife to Florida ... I lived in the PI for 5 total years myself. Anyway, my wife is al...

7. Filipina (US citizen) .. Going back to Philippines for BSN

   Turbota replied to Turbota's topic in Registration

   That's an idea

8. Filipina (US citizen) .. Going back to Philippines for BSN

   Turbota replied to Turbota's topic in Registration

   Yup ... Looking at my history, you can see that I was asking a similar question about nursing school when I first joined this forum back in 2010. She put the whole idea on hold since then, but has made up her mind that she want's to pursue this nursi...

9. Filipina (US citizen) .. Going back to Philippines for BSN

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   No desire to ever live in the Peoples Republic of Kalifornia. As far as having her foreign transcripts evaluated, she has gone through this before. She has a BS in Computer Science from a school in the Philippines. She once had to send the transcript...

10. Filipina (US citizen) .. Going back to Philippines for BSN

    Turbota replied to Turbota's topic in Registration

    May have problems in some states, but it don't seem to be a big problem here in Florida. My wife would be happy to attend the University here in Florida for the purpose of getting her BSN, but the problem is that at any given date, there are 250 stud...

11. Bachelors from the Philippines

    Turbota replied to vumblevee's topic in International

    Just to add .... My Filipina wife was applying for a BSN program at a university here in Florida. A requirement for admissions was that she had to have here transcripts from her school in the Philippines evaluated by a company in Miami called "Josef ...

12. Filipina (US citizen) .. Going back to Philippines for BSN

    Turbota replied to Turbota's topic in Registration

    Seems like the requirements to work as an RN are all different from state to state for nurses that have graduated from nursing schools outside of the US. My wife was born in the Philippines, but is now a US citizen. We live in Florida. She wants to g...

13. Filipina (US citizen) .. Going back to Philippines for BSN

    Turbota replied to Turbota's topic in Registration

    Thanks ... I had no idea. I will try looking for that forum Any idea what the forum is titled?

14. Filipina (US citizen) .. Going back to Philippines for BSN

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    Thanks 'caliotter3' for the input. Is applying for an RN license different for persons graduating from a school in the Philippines vs a person graduating from a school in the US? They both have to pass the NCLEX-RN exam, but what more would be involv...

15. Want a BSN in Philippines

    Turbota replied to iscream4u's topic in Philippines

    ok123 .... Good questions, unfortunately I don't have your answers. My Filipina wife is in somewhat of the same situation as you are in, however, she has never been a nurse of any type before. My wife is also a US citizen and has a BS degree in Compu...